Monaco covers 486 acres (just under 2 km˛) and is
smaller than Central Park in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco)303
St. Devota (b.~2893), a Corsican martyr, died.
Sainte-Devote was killed during the persecutions of Diocletian and
Maximian. Monaco celebrates her feast day on Jan 27. In 1820 she was
named a principal patron saint of Corsica.
(SSFC, 1/27/13, p.N3)

1297 Jan 7, Francois Grimaldi
(Francois the Crafty) of Genoa disguised himself as a monk and
appeared at the fortress on the Rock of Monaco. Once inside he
called his reinforcements and seized the place.
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.C1)(Econ, 12/24/05, p.84)

1856 Monaco opened its first
casino.
(Econ, 8/13/16, p.38)

1863 Prince Charles III built
the casino of Monte Carlo. The Monte Carlo Casino was built and
officially named the Sea Bathing & Circle of Foreigners Co.
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.C1)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)

1903 Prince Albert I of Monaco
initiated the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO), an
effort to chart the Earth’s seabed. By 2017 only a fifth of the task
was completed.
(http://www.gebco.net/about_us/project_history/)(Econ, 10/29/16,
p.70)

1949 Jul 6, The principality of
Monaco joined UNESCO.
(http://tinyurl.com/bdtj3p)

1949 Nov 19, Prince Ranier III
was crowned 30th Monarch of Monaco, six months after he succeeded
his grandfather, Prince Louis the Second. Rainier III came to power
and saw the future in banking, real estate and a more diverse
economy with industries such as pharmaceuticals and plastics.
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.C1)(HN, 11/19/98)(AP, 11/19/00)

1956 Apr 18, Actress Grace
Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a civil ceremony. A
church wedding took place the next day.
(AP, 4/18/97)

1957 Jan 23, Princess Caroline
of Monaco, was born.
(HN, 1/23/99)

1957 No one in Monaco paid
income taxes except French citizens who arrived after this year.
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.C1)

1963 French residents of Monaco
became liable for French taxes.
(Econ, 12/24/05, p.85)

1982 Sep 14, Princess Grace of
Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries
from a car crash the day before. Her daughter Stephanie survived the
crash. Kelly rose to prominence in film with 1952's 'High Noon', and
she worked with Alfred Hitchcock in several films including 'Rear
Window'. Her movie career was a brief six years where she did win an
Oscar for 'The Country Girl'. In 1956 she retired from film
following her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.
(AP, 9/14/97)(AP, 10/10/02)

1991 The first Monaco Yacht
Show was held. It featured 1,147 yachts over 30 meters. By 2016 the
number increased to 4,473.
(Econ, 10/8/16, p.63)

1996 In Monte Carlo Princess
Stephanie filed for divorce from her husband and former bodyguard,
Daniel Ducruet.
(SFC, 9/17/96, p.A12)

1997 Jan 7, The 700th
anniversary of the House of Grimaldi.
(SFC, 1/8/97, p.C1)

1999 Dec 3, In Monaco
billionaire banker Edmund Safra (67), founder of the Republic
National Bank of New York, was suffocated to death in a fire set by
intruders at his home in Monte Carlo. His American nurse, Ted Maher
(41), was jealous of other servants and later admitted that he had
set the fire and fabricated the intruder story to gain attention.
Maher was convicted in 2002 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Maher escaped but was soon captured.
(SFC, 12/4/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/2/02, p.A1)(SSFC,
9/11/05, Par p.2)

2002 Dec 2, A Monaco court
convicted Ted Maher in the 1999 arson death of Edmund Safra. Maher
was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(WSJ, 12/2/02, p.A1)

2005 Apr 6, Prince Rainier III
(b.1923) of Monaco died at age 81, nearly a month after he was
hospitalized with a lung infection. His fairy-tale marriage to
Hollywood star Grace Kelly brought elegance and glamour to one of
Europe's oldest dynasties.
(AP, 4/6/05)(SFC, 4/6/05, p.A8)

2005 Jul 6, Monaco’s Prince
Albert admitted that he had fathered a boy with a French-Togolese
women in 2003.
(SFC, 7/7/05, p.A20)

2008 Oct 6, A panel of
scientists met in Monaco for the 2nd international UNESCO symposium
on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World. On Jan 30, 2009, they issued the
Monaco Declaration, which summed up their deliberations, and
reported that acidity of ocean surface waters has increased 30%
since the 17th century.
(SFC, 1/31/09, p.A4)(http://tinyurl.com/bdtj3p)

2009 Apr 16, Hotel service in
Monaco was limited and casino roulette wheels were expected to stop
spinning as employees in the wealthy Mediterranean principality went
on strike to protest job cuts.
(AP, 4/16/09)

2009 Monaco’s population was
about 33,000.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco)

2013 The population Monaco was
about 36,000. Its per capital income was over 150,000 and the
unemployment rate stood at zero. Many big projects were connected to
the Societe des Bains de Mer de Monaco, which was 69% owned by
Prince Albert II (55).
(SSFC, 12/15/13, p.A22)

2015 Mar 2, The principality of
Monaco signed an accord with Italy aimed at ending banking secrecy,
days after Switzerland and Liechtenstein inked similar pledges to
exchange financial information with Rome.
(AP, 3/2/15)

2015 Aug 27, Monaco's Prince
Albert II apologized for his country's role in deporting Jews to
Nazi camps — seven decades after police rounded up scores of people
from the seaside principality, including those who had sought refuge
from the Holocaust in what they thought was a safe and neutral land.
(AP, 8/27/15)